Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) and Grace Exhibition Space Present:

NATURE FETISH

A Public Opera and Performance Exhibition

Thursday July 12, Friday July 13, Thursday July 19, and Friday July 20
8pm: NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera
9:30-11pm: NATURE FETISH Exhibition performances

Saturday July 14 and Saturday, July 21
4pm and 8pm: NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera
9:30-11pm: NATURE FETISH Exhibition performances

Grace Exhibition Space
840 Broadway, Floor 2
Brooklyn, NY, 11206
J/M/Z to Flushing Avenue
Tickets for the July shows including the performances as part of the exhibition after the opera are a suggested donation of $5-$20 at the door only.
http://grace-exhibition-space.com/

Press Photos, Trailers:
http://www.panoplylab.org/nature.html and http://www.naturefetish.wordpress.com

“A uniquely sublime experience, simultaneously startling bizarre and familiarly fitting, like
a long forgotten home, or the body from a past life”
–Catrin Lloyd-Bollard for NYArts (NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera)

NATURE FETISH is a project conceived across social and disciplinary spheres. In its final state, it is a Public Opera, a hybrid, documentary, participatory, musical, situational performance of approximately 70 minutes.

The opera will be presented by New York City’s first and only dedicated site for conceptual, body-based and fluxist performance art, Grace Exhibition Space. As part of each performance, PPL-curated artists working in time-based performance across disciplines will deal directly with the “nature” of performance, operation of “nature” in performance, and conceptions of “nature” as such.

Thursday July 12:
The Call of Nature: bodily functions and fluids, embodiment, waste, want, meat, and human impact on natural environments. FEATURING: Elinor Thompson, Miles Pflanz, Dave Ruder, Matthew Silver, and Lorene Bouboushian.

Friday July 13:
NATURE FETISH opera project collaborating artists, poets, composers, and performers show solo works dealing with their own projections of “the nature of nature.” FEATURING: Jessica Bathurst, Cory Bracken, Brian McCorkle, Ellen O’Meara, Esther Neff, Michael Newton, Natasha Missick, Katie Johnston, Arla Berman, Matthew Gantt and others

Saturday July 14:
SIMULTANEOUS: Nature Fetish Edition: Ivy Castellanos of IV Soldiers Galleryworks with 4 performance artists simultaneously as an ecosystem or food chain or other emergent system. FEATURING: Felix Morelo, Ryan Hawk, Matthew Silver, and Miles Pflanz.

Thursday July 19:
The Natural Spirit: field recordings, indeterminacy, fluxus, improvisation and the influence of performance art’s “nature” on music and dance. FEATURING:Jason Anastasoff, Lindsey Drury, and Kyli Klevan.

Friday July 20:
Rituals and Totems: cultural semiology, feminism, naturalism, post-humanism, and the problematics of performance and anthropology. FEATURING: Lillie D’Armon, Anya Liftig, Kikuko Tanaka, and Quinn Dukes.

Saturday, July 21:
Video, Voice and the Nature of the Self: FEATURING: Alessandra Eramo (w/ David Grollman), Heather Warren Crow, Valerie Kuehne/Tuba?No Tuba and Joseph Keckler.

Exhibition curated by Esther Neff

NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera has been performed:
As part of the Art is Not Apart Festival at University Settlement
April 6th @ City Reliquary
April 26-28th @ University Settlement
April 29th @ Bronx Art Space
May 12th @ MPA-B Open, Berlin
May 14th @ BLO Ateliers, Berlin
May 18th @ KuLe as part of Anima/Animus #1 curated by Melanie Jame Walsh, Berlin
June 15th and 16th @ the Center for Performance Research

NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera is a hybrid rat-being thriving across field and street and woods and desert, now unaware that it is being watched, now meeting your eyes with a piercing gaze, now munching on the scraps that have fallen down onto the tracks, now squeaking in extended techniques at the top of its creosote-caked lungs.